lack of understanding
collocation in Englishmeaningsofandunderstanding
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adjective
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈstæn.dɪŋ/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈstæn.dɪŋ/
An understanding person who has the ability to know how other people are feeling, and can forgive them if they do ...
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Nonetheless, thelackofunderstandingand mistrust of government prevented the project from moving ahead.
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If that is the case,lackofunderstandingof the nature of the objects might account for discrepancies in naming them.
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Thislackofunderstandingmay be a form of psychological denial.
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However, an even greater proportion of forgetting among young children can be explained bylackofunderstanding.
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Nonetheless, thelackofunderstandingof the source of the variability remains troubling.
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Hislackofunderstandingof the notion of frame of reference goes hand in hand with his claims to priority.
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That to me representslackofunderstandingof the very special knowledge that is brought to bear.
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Another general feature of the paper is to blame everything on alackofunderstandingand leadership.
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In addition, there is alackofunderstandingof these students' literacy experiences beyond the classroom.
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The investigations remain on the level of the hypothesis or the suspicion, which asserts itself primarily as alackofunderstanding.
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This is due in part to alackofunderstandingof the intricacies inherent in the definitions.
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Consumers were viewed as not understanding the complexity of genetic engineering, and because of thislackofunderstanding, tended to reject the technology.
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Together with the general assumption of monolingualism in the legal system comes a frequentlackofunderstandingof what it means to be bilingual.
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There was a widespread belief that there was a generallackofunderstandingand little interest in the problems of the farming population.
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Progress in this area has been hampered bylackofunderstandingof the basic mechanisms responsible for preterm labour.
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These ideas indicate alackofunderstandingof the symbolic function of letters in words.
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Such an idea, he argues, is due to alackofunderstandingof the nature of a philosophical problem.
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Personal experience highlighted concerns regarding thelackofunderstandingof preceptorship.
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One possible source for children's problems with each might be alackofunderstandingof the semantics of each.
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The operation is indeed still regarded with considerable distrust,lackofunderstanding, and as taboo.
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